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...tobacco executives have the upper hand. Odds are they could go on winning in court for years. But they are just plain wrong to ignore the wisdom of the market. For starters, the $10 billion-a-year figure is a red herring. David Adelman, tobacco analyst at Dean Witter Discover, believes the industry could get the figure down to $3 billion or less. But even at the higher figure, "it's not a lot of money" under certain scenarios, notes Roy Burry, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. No industry has greater pricing flexibility, and every nickel-a-pack increase generates...
...company called HFS that owns a collection of brands from Howard Johnson to Century 21 to Avis that have made it the world's largest and most aggressive franchiser. "You'd have a lot of difficulty finding another company this size that is growing this fast," says Smith Barney analyst Michael Rietbrock. How fast? In 1995 HFS had sales of $413 million. This year the company will clock in around $1.8 billion...
Steve Min '94, a senior analyst at Cambridge Strategic Management Group, a management consulting firm, says his company does not care if students write theses...
Christopher W. Bruce, crime analyst for the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), said, "One or two [break-ins] seem professional, while the others seem rather crude, just smash and grabs with not much savvy to them...
...decide to drive up interest rates to end the frothy speculation that Greenspan worries about. That would draw money out of stocks and into the bond market. "The availability of money and credit is what makes [the stock market] go," says Bill LeFevre, a senior stock-market analyst for the firm Ehrenkrantz King Nussbaum. "If you turn off the availability of money and credit, the whole thing falls of its own weight." But LeFevre and most other experts doubt that the Fed will take any strong action while inflation remains under control...